"I'll risk forty dollars that he can outjump any frog in Calaveras county."
— Mark Twain

January 1, 1970

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"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"; first published as "Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog" in the New York Saturday Press, 18 November 1865; revised by the author and reprinted the following month in The Californian